Gaza fighter died in ‘jihad mission’

انّا للہ و انّا الیه راجعون

April 14, 2011

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said one of the group’s fighters was killed Thursday morning, when an explosive device detonated while the young man was on a “jihad mission,” a statement said.

It is the second accidental death of a Gaza resistance fighter reported in as many days, following the death of an Al-Qassam brigadesman in Khan Younis on Wednesday.

A DFLP statement said National Resistance Brigades fighter Khader Abu Elbeh, 22, was seriously wounded during an operation west of the Jabaliya area in the northern Gaza Strip and later died of his injuries.

Medical sources in Gaza confirmed that a man was pronounced dead after being seriously wounded by a bomb which exploded, apparently prematurely.

In their statement, the NRB mourned the death of the fighter, saying he was killed while “on a jihad mission,” and vowed to continue resistance activities as a “goal and a promise to our nation.”